Some people eat that stuff too! I ordered it once in a German restaurant not realizing what it was. Very spicy. I thought I was going to die an hour later. I had to jump into a bath of ice cold water and take some tablets.

QUOTES FOR OUR TIMES . . . .

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going to a garage makes you a mechanic." Laurence J Peter

"A rising tide raises all ships." Anonymous Wall Street adage

" . . . it is madness for the thirty most industrially developed nations of the world, who dispose between them of ninety-five percent of high-tech weaponry and the means for its production, to sell these artifacts to the crazed, the aggressive, and the dangerous . . . " Frederick Forsyth 'The Fist of God' (1994)

"A computer is like an Old Testament God; a lot of rules and no mercy." Joseph Campbell

"To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men." Albert Einstein

"I preferred to endure all sorts of punishment rather than learn to gabble by rote." Albert Einstein (reflecting on his schooldays)

"In the circles of absolute power laughter is subversive." Lenz Prütting

"In my paintings I narrate history in order to show what lies behind history." Anselm Kiefer

"The Simpsons is the best thing on American television." Stephen Hawking

"Chances are I'm running up a mountain or I'm drinking a cerveza." Micah True

"A moment enjoyed is never wasted." Pat Thistlethwaite

"Always be a poet even in prose." Charles Baudelaire

"We see the world as being outside ourselves even though it is only an idea that we experience inside ourselves." Rene' Magritte

"Thousands, perhaps millions of people have died, often accepting torture first, for loyalty to one religion against a scarcely distinguishable alternative." Richard Dawkins

"As it has been throughout history the artists are always the ones to carry the ball for civilization going forward." Max Keiser

"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind." John F Kennedy

"Sometimes all the king's horses and all the king's men shouldn't try to put Humpty together again." Arnie Gundersen

"Of all the places in the world where no one in their right mind would build scores of nuclear power plants, Japan would be pretty near the top of the list." Leuren Moret

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"They can destroy the Earth and take everything it has, but there will always be stubborn flowers climbing whatever walls are left." Alice Walker

"The most important day in a person's life is the day of his death." Otto von Habsburg

"Sir, you are tough and I am tough, but who will write whose epitaph?" Joseph Brodsky

"If you don't understand; that's when the trolls come out and wreak havoc." Ole Kopreitan

"Most editors of quality national papers operate on a collection of policy principles that set the bar for the paper. Ours is simply this. We define the position of the paper as liberal, centrist and supportive of a mixed economy. We are against violence - we are for peace. It's what we stand for." Vincent Doyle - editor Irish Independent

"There is a very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and control."John F Kennedy 27th April 1961

"If all the people who run this planet studied under Nelson Mandela we'd definitely get a better planet." Brian May

"Nobody wins unless everybody wins." Bruce Springsteen

"I won't stop running until I die." Fauja Singh, aged 100.

"I run while talking to God." Fauja Singh, aged 101.

"Who am I, to judge?" Pope Francis

"Criticism of the criminal actions of a State is not anti-semitism." Noam Chomsky, at the United Nations.